New York Times bestselling author Stephen Freypresents a financial thriller of corruption at the highestlevels of government and the greed that drives it. An IRS agent suspects foul play when her boss dies during an investigation into the financial profile of a senatorialcandidate's campaign. Now she possesses the information that could ruin the candidate's career, expose the military's secret black budget, and damage the credibility of a major investment banking firm. With the help of the banking firm's portfolio manager, she intends to reveal her information...unless she is silenced first!
* Stephen Frey is the New York Times bestselling author of The Takeover * Both The Vulture Fund and The Takeover were optioned by ParamountPictures and Neufeld/Rehme Productions, the producers of Tom Clancy's
Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger * Published to coincide with the Dutton hardcover publication of Stephen Frey's The Legacy * The Inner Sanctum includes a teaser chapter for The Legacy
If you need a good business thriller to keep your mind off the stock market, you can't do much better than this one from Stephen Frey, former Wall Street insider and author of two previous barn burners, The Takeover and The Vulture Fund, both available in paperback. The Inner Sanctum pits smart, ambitious, underpaid IRS agent Jesse Hayes against smart, ambitious, overpaid portfolio fund manager David Mitchell in a story about corporate greed and political corruption that reads like a cover of Time or Newsweek.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
Better then the reviews given here......:
If you like Stephen Frey then you will enjoy this book. I've read most of his books and this would rank toward the top. Sure the other reviews complain about depth of characters and a somewhat unbelievable plot but that is Frey. Lots of action, lots of twists and lots of fun. That is what Frey is about. As I always end: Remember, get this book from your library and save your cash.
Poorly Crafted - Overall Not Worth The Time:
Others have covered the plot weaknesses (there are many). Overall a very disappointing book. Stiff, shallowly developed unbelievable characters and a dialog that smacks of a bad movie. Nobody in real life would carry on the conversations proposed, in the stilted dialog provided, under any circumstance. I finished it because I was traveling and had nothing else to read. Trashed it when I got home. Sorry, lots of great, enjoyable books out there but this is not one of them.
Oddly uneven, but good.:
There's more realism here than most would like I think. One of the problems for many people is that they don't move in those circles where people really do talk to each other like little-lord-fauntleroy. So I think that many people are put off by what they see as unrealistic when it is completely realistic. This is a combination of slice of life from that class, with some imaginative stuff. But this is not the potboiler that many are saying.
As Bad as Everyone Says:
Avoid this one. This is not really a "financial" thriller at all -- it's a lame attempt at a political thriller, written by someone who apparently knows very little about politics. This book is not badly written, but is severly hindered by a highly unrealistic plot and cardboard characters. I'll make an effort to read another book by Stephen Frey, to see whether this book is an aberration (I hope so).
